International disputes: thousands of
Afghan refugees still reside in Pakistan; isolating terrain and
close ties among Pashtuns in Pakistan make cross-border activities
difficult to control; armed stand-off with India over the status and
sovereignty of Kashmir continues—India objects to Pakistan
ceding lands to China in 1965 boundary agreement that India believes
are part of disputed Kashmir; disputes with India over Indus River
water sharing and the terminus of the Rann of Kutch, which prevents
maritime boundary delimitation.